Foster in numbers
- Coordinates
- 42.1292, -76.1433
- Elevation
- 334 m above sea level
- Region
- New York
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 367 km away
- Same name
- 28 more places in the world share this name
This page reports the local time in Foster, New York, United States, set by the America/New_York time zone (−5).
Foster, United States
Saturday, 7 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Foster
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Foster keeps America/New_York clock_time.
Sunrise 6:46 AM Solar noon 11:49 AM Sunset 4:53 PM Daylight 10 h 07 min Night 13 h 53 min Civil twilight 6:16 AM – 5:22 PM
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Postal codes come from the free GeoNames dataset. Where a code is listed with a distance, it belongs to a nearby settlement — GeoNames spells that name differently from ours.
Postal numbering in Foster covers 7 codes.
The time zone used in Foster is America/New_York, set at UTC−5. Whether the clocks shift for daylight saving: No.
In Foster today the sun is out from 6:46 AM until 4:53 PM. That comes to 10 h 07 min of daylight.
The time in Foster is also the time in nearby Whittemore and Gaskill.